Maral - Mahur Club
APR121 | Out Now

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Los Angeles’s Maral (@maral66) has spent the past half-decade quietly honing an approach that meshes the latest in club music contortions, a range of pulverized dub effects, and samples from her library of Iranian folk, pop and classical musics. More likely to be found working behind the scenes for local labels and club nights, Maral steps into the spotlight on Mahur Club, highlighting a trans-historical collage technique that emphasizes formal experimentation as much as it does personal history.

Exploring (rhythmic) psychedelia in both concrete and abstract forms, Mahur Club dials in on mashed out versions of Jersey club, reggaeton and dub, nodding to psych rock and trip hop via whirlwind takes on contemporary battle dance genres. Repetition and rapid sample chop are utilized on tracks like “don’t trip on your way down” and “lori lullaby”, pairing familiar dance-floor rhythms with waterlogged Farsi vocals in a sublime vortex of tradition, pop and functionality.

Mahur Club features material from ABE, DJ Abosohar and Loris. The release consists of two separate components; a cassette featuring two mixed portions and a free mixtape of individual tracks. Mastering provided by Will Mitchell, artwork by Maral Mahmoudi and design by Caleb Ali Miller.

Mahur Club

Maral - try/again [APR121

Tapes + 7FO [ Live - 電氣爆発 ] (excerpt1)

kay oss and BIXA present one half a presentation of drone-y, slowed washes; the other, a brainstorm bag of breaks, glitch, and advertising detritus from the dot com bubble to quarantine.

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During Jeremy Corbyn’s time as Labour leader, much attention was part to the economic vision that the party developed for the United Kingdom, but less to his personal interest in the arts, and how that shaped both Labour’s cultural policy, and their programme as a whole. In this interview, Juliet talks to Jeremy about his interest in the socialist cultures that formed around the 20th century Labour Party and the Popular United government in Chile, the arts policies the party developed under his leadership, the concept of cultural democracy and his determination to unlock the creative potential of the UK’s young people, #Grime4Corbyn and Culture for Labour in the 2017 and 2019 election campaigns, what the reaction to his fondness for James Joyce’s Ulysses says about the British media, how socially engaged artists might react to the 2019 election defeat and the job losses amidst the Covid-19 pandemic, and plenty more.

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The Arts for All: An interview with Jeremy Corbyn

Owen Hatherley and Kojo Koram join PTO to talk about Owen's essay, 'A Study in the Politics and Aesthetics of English Misery'. In the essay Owen reflects on the generational divides that have emerged over the course of the last two UK general elections by charting the musical evolution of The Smiths. Comparing Morrissey’s political trajectory to those of many voters throughout the North of England, Owen investigates the roots of the North’s departure from anti-Thatcherite collectivism to nationalist reaction. You can find the essay in 'Futures of Socialism: The Pandemic and the Post-Corbyn Era', edited by Grace Blakeley.

#99 Morrissey, nationalism, and the aesthetics of English misery w/ Owen Hatherley & Kojo Koram

What is it to face reality as it really is? The alt-right claim that means seeing through democracy, equality and human rights as cons, and exploit the crumbling foundations of liberalism's worldview. Hari Kunzru's new novel, Red Pill, explores the crisis-upon-crisis cataclysm of the contemporary world, as it tells the story of a writer's catastrophic encounter with an alt-right guru and his world crumbles around him. He joins James Butler to discuss neofascism, surveillance capitalism, the politics of violence and what lies on the far shore of psychic crisis. Red Pill is available wherever you get your books. Hari's new podcast series Into the Zone is available wherever you get your podcasts, and comes highly recommended by Novara Media. https://novaramedia.com/?p=26706

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#NovaraFM: Taking the Red Pill With Hari Kunzru

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007 / 28 mins runtime

«I’ve always struggled to feel whole.

My dad is an Iranian in America, born and raised in a
polarized Tehran. My mom belongs to a conservative
family, and grew up in a small, Southern town.
Trapped in a cycle of contradictions and self-negations,
and also free from the trap of a seamless worldview.
There’s tension in the cards I’ve been dealt, and Biaban
is one of the ways I’ve been dealing with it this year.

I’ve been doing a lot of negotiating with myself lately.
New Silk Harp Strings is a set of memories, orchestrated
from samples, loops, beatpacks and pre-revolutionary
45s buried in my basement at home, mixtapes scrawled
in handwritings of long lost friends, myths, fables,
diaspora letters and parables.»

Recorded between December 2019 & August 2020
outside Washington DC and inside St. Paul MN

Dubbed to cassette October 2020 in Den Haag NL

All tracks orchestrated and performed by آرام کاوسی
Photography and Design by Luca van Grinsven

New Silk Harp Strings

Biaban - New Silk Harp Strings [excerpts]

JEROME Mixfile #638 - Sword Of Thorns

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JEROME Mixfile #638 - Sword Of Thorns

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Tracklist:
Liai - 8 Tresses
Echium - Multiple Frameworks
Jonny L - Underwater Communications
Hideki Umezawa & Andrew Pekler - Amami Remote Extension
TIBSLC - Aliénation Pours Forth
Perko - Grounds (ft. Lia)
Ulla Straus - I forgot to take a picture
Unknown - 鵜沼駅 空中歩道の夜, Unuma Aerial Walkway (field recording)
Nick Malkin - Sixth Street Conversation
ju ca - Essence (Flora Yin-Wong Remix)
perila - shtureez
hironori nagatsuma - Utökad kropp
mu tate - Jun
Sa Pa - Room with a view
Marta Forsberg - Love
Rhucle - Butterfly in the Water
Continuity - Untitled
Unknown - 祇王寺, Ukyo Ward, Kyoto (field recording)

Continuity #8 (08/11/20)

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This One Is For The With The Booming System

Suite (212) is a radio programme, broadcast on Resonance 104.4fm, and podcast that explores the arts in their social, political, cultural and historical contexts, hosted by Juliet Jacques. We take an inter-disciplinary approach, with an emphasis on innovative, underground or avant-garde work. Sometimes, panels discuss cultural politics; sometimes, we focus on a new publication or exhibition, or a specific individual or group whose work we admire.